Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF– January 14, 2014 – Melissa Data, a leading provider of global contact data quality and integration solutions, today announced its strategic alliance with Blu Sky to solve growing data management challenges in healthcare markets. Melissa Data offers a comprehensive platform for data integration and data quality, and Blu Sky provides data capture technologies optimized for EpicCare software deployments used to administer mid-size and large medical groups, hospitals, and integrated healthcare organizations. By partnering with Melissa Data and its extensive suite of established data quality solutions, healthcare providers have a comprehensive single source for superior data management and compliance.

“Integrated data quality is essential to advancing universal healthcare options, yet the complexities of healthcare data management are evident in today’s headlines,” said Gary Van Roekel, COO, Melissa Data. “As government initiatives catalyze change in the market, our alliance with Blu Sky provides a significant technical and competitive advantage for healthcare CTOs – offering a comprehensive, proven resource for data quality, integration, and capture. Improved and integrated patient data quality will not only help providers reduce the cost of care, but also facilitate better diagnosis and treatment options for patients.”

With this alliance, Melissa Data provides global data quality solutions that verify, standardize, consolidate, and enhance U.S. and international contact data, in combination with a comprehensive Data Integration Suite in Contact Zone, enabling cleansed and enhanced patient data to be transformed and shared securely within a healthcare network. Blu Sky adds subject matter experts to the equation – with deep expertise in the EpicCare software used extensively in healthcare networks to facilitate a “one patient, one record” approach; patient data capture, storage, and management is assured of compliance with a growing range of healthcare regulations, including CASS certification of address results, and HIPAA privacy and security policies.

“Mobile healthcare, connected pharmacy applications, and electronic medical records represent tangible advancements in healthcare accessibility,” said Rick O’Connor, President, Blu Sky. “The same advances increase complexity of data management in the context of HIPAA confidentiality and other industry standards. With a single source to address compliance network-wide, providers are poised for healthcare innovations based on secure, high quality patient information.”

For more information about the healthcare data management alliance between Melissa Data and Blu Sky, contact Annie Shannahan at 360-527-9111, or call 1-800-MELISSA (635-4772).